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Cheyney University Appears on Emmy-Award Winning TV Show
Good Morning America
March 5, 2010
CHEYNEY, PA (March 4, 2010) — Select members of the Cheyney University Campus Community joined President Michelle R. Howard-Vital as studio guests on Tuesday morning’s Good Morning America news program.
The University’s President, Dr. Howard-Vital, was especially pleased by the opportunity to showcase the University’s students and to show CU Pride. “Because we are developing a center of excellence in Communications Media, Fine Arts, and Entertainment Arts this trip and tour of ABC was not only fun but extremely enlightening to our students,” affirmed President Howard-Vital.
The field experience will prove valuable to those attending students who are members of the University’s Center of Excellence in Media, Fine Art, and Entertainment Arts. Cheyney University launched the Center of Excellence earlier this fall, and the concept to focus resources in this area was based upon CU’s history of graduating esteemed journalists and media personalities such as the late Ed Bradley (60 Minutes), Jim Vance (NBC Washington), and Robert Traynham (The Comcast Network).
Michael Taylor, organizer of this Student Affairs initiative to strengthen co-curricular learning opportunities for University students, believes the University’s appearance on GMA is something the faculty, staff, students, and alumni can take great pride. “Being the first black institution of higher learning, I thought this would be a great opportunity to reaffirm the University’s position on a national level,” says Taylor.
CU students received a studio tour and were able to take pictures with GMA personalities Robin Roberts, Ju-Ju and “Rocco.”
About Cheyney University
Cheyney University is the nation’s oldest historically Black institution of higher education. It is also the only Historically Black College and University (HBCU) in the Pennsylvania State System of Higher Education (PASSHE.) Now celebrating its 26th year, PASSHE comprises Pennsylvania’s 14 public universities, with a combined enrollment of more than 112,500, making it the largest provider of higher education in the Commonwealth. At its inception, Cheyney University of Pennsylvania successfully provided free classical education for qualified young people, and today the university offers baccalaureate degrees in more than 30 disciplines and six master’s degree programs. For more information, please visit the website at http://www.cheyney.edu.
